Capt Fathom, as I said in a previous post, crew flying on Asian licences don't GET Australian AIP just as we don't get Bangladeshi AIP or Russian AIP; it's no good quoting them to international pilots unless it is reflected in their company publications.
Thanks Titan, my incident was some time ago and my response that it was legal was agreed with by Corporate Safety (who appended the comment 'AirServices Australia can be a bit picky sometimes'), who themselves got back to AirServices. I'm sure that Vol 2 was amended some time after.
I stand by all my previous posts and, while I hereby express my appreciation to the individual Aussie ATCO's, the rules and requirements they have to work under in many cases don't reflect 'convention' in the rest of the world.
It's now been done to death. Cheers to all.